Tobin Heath Quotes

The Women's World Cup gives FIFA a chance, once every four years, to showcase the growth of women's soccer. It gives FIFA a highly visible opportunity to encourage countries around the globe to also support their women's programs. It gives FIFA the forum to show countries the potential of women's soccer if only you support it.

Clubs in other countries can step up, and we can kick on with women's football even more.

I think it's important that we try to showcase what we're about as women footballers.

Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage. But it's one of those things that happens. Every year the level is getting higher, and I think we surprise a lot of people when the world focuses its attention on the World Cup or the Olympics final.

To give women more opportunity, women's empowerment is very, very close to my heart.

Everybody is really committed to making the women's game as good as it can be.

The image of women's football has definitely changed. Now we've got to make sure it keeps developing.

I've said it before that I am not and haven't been throughout my career a huge supporter of women's wrestling, and I haven't paid that much attention to it.

We want more opportunities for women's players throughout the world.

It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves.

One of our problems is the culture of Brazil which focuses on men's football. Of course we would like to change that. Maybe one day we will have a strong competitive league instead of our women footballers always having to play abroad.

Back in the States, women play flag football, but they have the same opportunities as the guys do.

I think a lot of us women feel like we deserve to play on the big courts in front of a big crowd as well.

To go from hit-and-miss promotions barely taking women's fighting seriously to women headlining on a regular basis, high-level fights, it's an amazing thing to see. And it happened in what I felt was a pretty quick succession - though not fast enough - as far as professional sports go. It's really exciting.

I don't think the entire world respects women in sport. But if FIFA start respecting the women's game more, others will follow.

A lot has evolved and changed in women's sport in the last 10 years - particularly football and cricket. So, I think my timing, in terms of being able to play both for a while, was fortunate.

There weren't any opportunities to be a professional women's player until I was 16 and the WSL was formed.

Just normalising the idea of women playing football is a massive part of what we need to do.

I think for people that have supported the women's game for a long time, I think they understand the struggles that we have continually faced and that we've continually fought back against.

I've been very fortunate to be given the opportunities I've been given, and it's been awesome. You know I'm really looking forward to seeing how this Women's Evolution continues.

There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.

There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

I think that's the great thing, ya' know, that women can do anything that they want now.